Rename already downloaded files to "path-restrict": "ascii" and continue downloading where it left off?

[barkoder]

I downloaded a lot but only discovered the "path-restrict": "ascii" option much later.

Is there a way to tell gallery-dl to rename all files in a given directory to "path-restrict": "ascii" (including .part files) and then continue the download where it left off?

Thanks!

[mikf]

While there is a --rename option, it does not allow to switch between different path-restrict settings.

I think you'd be best off using a third-party tool to rename your files by replacing any characters not in 0-9A-Za-z_. with underscores _.

[barkoder]

I used this in bash.

for file in * ; do mv "$file" $(echo "$file" | sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/_/g') ; done

But there are 3 more underscores in the filename than what you get with gallery-dl's "path-restrict": "ascii"

It's the emoji. They're being substituted with 4 underscores, instead of just 1 underscore with gallery-dl's "path-restrict": "ascii"

Please help me remove those 3 additional underscores . Thanks.

[mikf]

Replacing

echo "$file" | sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/_/g'

with

python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file"

to let Python do the replacement should help.

edit: You might want to quote the $(...) part:

for file in * ; do mv -- "$file" "$(python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file")" ; done

[barkoder]

Create this file in test directory - 💞.txt

Using your command,

for file in * ; do mv -- "$file" "$(python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file")" ; done

New filename - [0m[0K_.txt[0K

If I just do

$ python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file"
_.txt

It looks like _.txt but there's more being printed.
Because when I wc -c that,

$ python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file" | wc -c
17

17 characters.

But _.txt is only supposed to be 5 characters.

$ echo -n _.txt | wc -c
5

[mikf]

Works in my machine ™️

$ touch '💞.txt'
$ ls
💞.txt
$ for file in * ; do mv -- "$file" "$(python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' "$file")" ; done
$ ls
_.txt
$ ls | wc -c
6  # 5 characters + newline

$ python -c 'import sys, re; print(re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z_.]", "_", sys.argv[1]), end="")' '💞.txt' | wc -c
5

[mikf]

[0m

This looks like the start of an ANSI escape sequence, but I might be wrong.

[barkoder]

Thanks @mikf it works! Had to update bash.

[Hrxn]

[0m

This looks like the start of an ANSI escape sequence, but I might be wrong.

Yup, ANSI escape sequence.